Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 94

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III
by Cyprian, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis
Part 94
157989Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III — Part 94Robert Ernest WallisCyprian

94. That the Eucharist is to be received with fear and honour.[1]

In Leviticus: “But whatever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of salvation, which is the Lord’s, and his uncleanness is still upon him, that soul shall perish from his people.”[2] Also in the first to the Corinthians: “Whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”[3]


Footnotes[edit]

  1. [Note, not to be worshipped, but received.]
  2. Lev. vii. 20.
  3. 1 Cor. xi. 27.